Kid Icarus, known in Japan as Light Mythology: Palutena’s Mirror (光神話 パルテナの鏡 Hikari Shinwa Parutena no Kagami), is a video game released for the Famicom in 1986, and the NES in 1987. It features Pit, the main protagonist of the series. Kid Icarus had two successors, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, and Kid Icarus: Uprising. Kid Icarus re-released on multiple Nintendo consoles and also has a 3DS remake, 3D Classics: Kid Icarus. Much like Metroid, the game features saving through the use of passwords. It was directed by Satoru Okada. Kid Icarus was released for the Wii’s Virtual Console in 2007, and for the Nintendo Switch’s NES Online Service in 2019.